Fibritin

Function

Fibritin (Fib) is a strctural protein of T4 bacteriophage. Fib promotes the assembly of the long tail fibers (whiskers) and their attachment to the virus tail baseplate. Fib is also responsible for the retraction of the tail fibers in adverse environment. Fib structure is composed of N-terminal domain which is responsible for attachment to the phage, a central 500A domain made of triple-helix coiled coil and the C-terminal domain (foldon) – residues 458-484 – which is the trimerization domain.

Disease

Relevance

Structural highlights

3D structures of fibritin

Updated on 04-August-2014

2bsg, 3j2o – T4Fib – T4 bacteriophage – Cryo-EM

1aa0 – T4Fib residues 371-483 – T4 bacteriophage
1avy – T4Fib residues 413-486 (mutant)
2ww6, 2ww7, 4ncu, 4ncv, 4ncw – T4Fib foldon
1u0p – T4Fib foldon - NMR
1rfo, 2kbl – T4Fib foldon (mutant) - NMR
1ox3 – T4Fib N-terminal + foldon domains
2ibl – Fib N-terminal + foldon domains – unidentified phage
1v1h, 1v1i – Fib shaft domain/T4Fib foldon domain - Adenovirus
3a1m – T4Fib foldon/GP5C

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